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Quite often
when a celebrity of interest to the
Jewish population came to Los Angeles,
California, they would make sure that
they paid a visit to the Fairfax home of
Zalmen and Celia Zylbercweig, who had
built a recording studio in the back of
their house.
In this
studio, they would record parts of each
broadcast, edit them and splice them
together to form either a thirty- or
sixty minute program.
The content
of these programs varied widely, from
interviews tomusic to comedy to conversation.
Each broadcast -- mostly in the Yiddish
language -- would be augmented to the daily
announcements of the "cultural doings" around Los
Angeles, e.g. upcoming performances,
meetings, commentaries
(from social to rabbinical), and of
course the requisite advertisements that were
necessary to cover some of the cost of
the shows.
In this next
radio program, circa May 1964, the Zylbercweigs
are visited by famed
Yiddish actress and singer, Fraydele
Oysher, who was known to sing cantorials as
beautifully as she did popular songs.
In this
program, the Zylbercweigs play two
records
featuring Fraydele singing, along with
her two recordings her brother, the
famed Moyshe Oysher, first singing
"Halevai" with the Barry Sisters, and
then "Vaomer (And God Said)".
The
Zylbercweigs are also entertained by Fraydele live in their studio, with
piano accompaniment as
she sang a couple of songs.
At the end is a few minutes of
conversation between them.
What a
treat!
Enjoy!
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